Welcome

Welcome to the Laboratory of Prof. Alex Zaslavsky in the Brown School of Engineering, working on semiconductor device physics and engineering. As silicon technology marches on towards ultimately scaled devices, we are pursuing alternative technologies based on either different physical mechanisms (such as tunneling or hot-electron effects), different materials (Ge, III-V materials, amorphous conducting oxides), and different geometries (nanowires, quantum dots, ultrathin SOI) that could provide added functionality. Current projects include:

Tunneling and band-modulation devices in SOI (collaboration with INPG/Minatec)

Students graduating from the Zaslavsky laboratory -- our most significant product by far -- are well-equipped for future semiconductor R&D by acquiring a full skill set, from device fabrication to characterization and modeling. They have moved on to a range of major companies (from Micron to Applied Materials, to GlobalFoundries, to Silvaco) and government labs (from NIST to CNRS).